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Sun-Like Star May Have More Planets Than Our Solar System
A star already known to host five alien planets may actually be home to a whopping nine full-fledged worlds...
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Did Exploding Stars Help Life On Earth Thrive?
Research by a Danish physicist suggests that the explosion of massive stars – supernovae – near the Solar System...
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Cosmic Ray Mystery Leaves Scientists in the Dark
The mystery of the origin of the strongest cosmic rays has deepened as new clues into key suspects, the...
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Dark Matter Theory Takes a Big Hit
Widely accepted theories of dark matter, a mysterious invisible substance that can only be detected indirectly by the gravitational...
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‘Time Machine’ Allows Scientists to Study Early Universe
A new scientific instrument, a “time machine” of sorts, built by UCLA astronomers and colleagues, will allow scientists to...
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Solving the Mystery of Stardust Recycling
When middleweight stars near the end of their cosmic lives, they shrug off their outer layers, shedding up to...
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Sun’s Sibling Stars Could Host Cousins of Earth Life
Some scientists are searching not just for any life out there in the universe, but for our distant relatives....
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Closing in on the Black Hole at Center of Our Galaxy
Though scientists have suspected for a while that a giant black hole lurks at the center of our galaxy,...
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Billions of Habitable Alien Planets Should Exist in Our Galaxy
There should be billions of habitable, rocky planets around the faint red stars of our Milky Way galaxy, a...
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Detection of Cosmic Effect Brings Universe’s Formation Into Focus
A large research team from two major astronomy surveys reports in a paper submitted to the journal Physical Review...